Topic: Feminism
![Two white men in suits and ties address a room full of mostly male journalists at the United Nations Population Conference in Bucharest in 1974.](https://s30471.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/UN-1974-Population-C-onference.jpg)
1970s
“A very small number of men control all the money and the ideas”: Women Revolutionize Population Programs in the 1970s
Women and technocratic elites clashed at the 1974 World Population Conference. At stake was women’s control over their own bodies.
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1970s
The Fairy Godmothers of Women’s Studies
Moving scholarship by and about women from margin to center.
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1990s
In Brief: “Manels” Before #MeToo
A foundation’s early criticism of the all-male conference panel, before #nomoremanels
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In Brief: The 1995 Beijing Women’s Conference
The global conversation about women’s issues takes a big step forward.